2 Kings 25:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then a breach was made in the city wall; the king with all the soldiers fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:5

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; all his army was scattered, deserting him.

2 Chronicles 32:5

Hezekiah strengthened himself and built up the entire wall that was broken down and raised towers on it, and outside it he built another wall; he also strengthened the Millo in the city of David and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Nehemiah 3:15

And Shallum son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate; he rebuilt it and covered it and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the King’s Garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

Isaiah 22:11

You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it or have regard for him who planned it long ago.

Isaiah 22:3

Your rulers have all fled together; they were captured without the use of a bow. All of your people who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

Jeremiah 32:4

King Zedekiah of Judah shall not escape out of the hands of the Chaldeans but shall surely be given into the hands of the king of Babylon and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye,

Jeremiah 34:3

And you yourself shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and handed over to him; you shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face, and you shall go to Babylon.

Jeremiah 38:18

But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be handed over to the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand.”

Jeremiah 4:17

They have closed in around her like watchers of a field because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:29

At the noise of horseman and archer every town takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the towns are forsaken, and no one lives in them.

Jeremiah 44:30

Thus says the Lord, I am going to give Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemies, those who seek his life, just as I gave King Zedekiah of Judah into the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, his enemy who sought his life.”

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she lives now among the nations; she finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 1:6

From daughter Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like stags that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

Ezekiel 12:12

And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and shall go out; he shall dig through the wall and carry it through; he shall cover his face so that he may not see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 12:14

I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword behind them.

Ezekiel 12:4

You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who go into exile.

Ezekiel 33:21

In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen.”

Leviticus 26:17

I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.

Leviticus 26:36

And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah; therefore love truth and peace.”

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?